Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (Global Issues)

Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: Making Sense of ‘Responsibility’ in International Relations – Key Questions and Concepts......Page 14
Part I Identifying Moral Agents: States, Governments, and ‘International Society’......Page 30
1 Assigning Responsibilities to Institutional Moral Agents: The Case of States and ‘Quasi-States’......Page 32
2 Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Representing the State......Page 54
3 Moral Agency and International Society:  Reflections on Norms, the UN, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo Campaign......Page 64
Part II Obstacles and Alternative Questions......Page 80
4 Collective Moral Agency and the Political Process......Page 82
5 Constitutive Theory and Moral Accountability: Individuals, Institutions, and Dispersed Practices......Page 97
6 When Agents Cannot Act: International Institutions as ‘Moral Patients’......Page 113
Part III Hard Cases: Assigning Duties......Page 130
7 NATO and the Individual Soldier as Moral Agents with Reciprocal Duties: Imbalance in the Kosovo Campaign......Page 132
8 The Anti-Sweatshop Movement:  Constructing Corporate Moral Agency in the Global Apparel Industry......Page 151
Part IV Hard Cases: Apportioning Blame......Page 170
9 The Responsibility of Collective External Bystanders in Cases of Genocide:  The French in Rwanda......Page 172
10 The United Nations and the Fall of Srebrenica: Meaningful Responsibility and International Society......Page 196
Part V Conclusions......Page 218
11 On ‘Good Global Governance’, Institutional Design, and the Practices of Moral Agency......Page 220
12 Global Justice: Aims, Arrangements, and Responsibilities......Page 231
Index......Page 251